Europe

Learning of nearly 90,000 students in Gaza Strip disrupted as Israeli reprisals force universities to suspend operations

Group hopes to instigate culture change in UK higher education to stop ‘toleration’ of bullies

Dame Ottoline Leyser’s acceptance of ministerial demands is likely to anger scholars who claim Michelle Donelan’s criticism undermines academic freedom

Union members at UCL claim to have been the ‘victim of a smear campaign’ as higher education minister calls them Hamas’ ‘useful idiots’

Palestinian scholars in Israel facing threats of violence and calls for their removal describe atmosphere of persecution

Employers increasingly wary of harming diversity drives with arbitrary thresholds

Warning comes alongside call for significant improvements in healthcare education and training

Science secretary’s condemnation of ‘extremist posts’ by UKRI equality advisers has led to accusations of ministerial ‘bullying’ and censorship

Hiring committees should ‘measure the egotism of candidates’ for vice-chancellor roles, say researchers who compared leaders’ traits and institutional outcomes

UK and New Zealand’s long-awaited association will spur on talks with Canada, South Korea and Japan, according to Signe Ratso

Complete careers rethink needed to allow ‘upshifts and downshifts’ during the course of a working life, female leaders tell conference

Academic dies after displaying symptoms of disease he studied, with thousands of unauthorised samples reportedly unearthed at lab